1. Supratentorial : (forebrain)

1. cerebral hemispheres

1. Intra-parenchymatous : (in brain substance itself)

• Astrocytoma (NET)
• Ependymoma
• Oligodendroglioma
• Glioblastoma
• Gangliocytoma
• Neuroblastoma
• Non NET : Dermoid, lymphoma, metastases.

1. Intra-ventricular :

• Ependymoma
• Choroid plexus papilloma
• Non NET : Meningioma - Dermoid, -epidermoid

1. Diencephalon ( brain stem and hypothalamus )

1. Parasellar :

• Optic nerve glioma (NET)
• Glioma of hypothalamus
• Non NET: Pituitary adenoma
• Craniopharyngioma
• Rathka’s cyst
• Meningioma
• Chordoma
• Dermoid and epidermoid
• Germinoma
• Teratoma
• Metastases
• Nasopharyngeal carinoma

1. Parapineal :

• Pineocytoma
• Pineoblastoma
• Astrocytoma
• Oligodendroglioma
• Ependymoma
• Glioblastoma multiformis
• Gangliocytoma
• Ganglioglioma
• Non NET: Germinoma
• Choriocarcinoma
• Teratoma- dermoid – Epidermoid
• Meningioma
• Metastases

1. Infratentorial : (hind brain)

1. Midline :

1. Prepontine :

• Chordoma
• Dermoid
• Nasopharyngeal carinoma
• Metastases

1. Brain stem

• Astrocytoma

1. Intra-ventricular (hind brain)

• Ependymoma
• Medulloblastoma
• Dermoid -Epidermoid

1. Cerebellar vermis :

• Astrocytoma
• Medulloblastoma
• Dermoid
• Metastases

1. Retro-cerebellar :

• Dermoid
• Meningioma
• Metastases

1. Lateral :

1. Cerebellar hemisphere :

• Astrocytoma
• Haemangioblastoma
• Desmoplastic Medulloblastoma
• Non NET: Metastases

1. Cerebello-pontine angle

• Astrocytoma
• Ependymoma
• Medulloblastoma
• Choroid plexus papilloma
• Non NET: Schwanoma
• Meningioma
• Epidermoid

Diencephalon :

Part of forebrain consisting from :

1. Epithalamus
2. Thalamus
3. Hypothalamus
4. Subthalamus

NET = Neuroepithelial Tumors

Non NET = Non neuroepithelial tumors

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